AbiWord is een tekstverwerker met als grootste kracht de compatibiliteit met de meest uiteenlopende formaten van tekstbestanden. Daarnaast draait het programma op tal van verschillende besturingssystemen. De ontwikkelaars van AbiSource hebben versie 2.4.5 uitgebracht die een hoop kleine foutjes oplost. Deze verbeteringen zijn een direct gevolg van het Google Summer of Code programma waarmee een student beloond wordt voor zijn programmeer kunsten. De aankondiging ziet er als volgt uit:
We know it's way overdue, but still the AbiWord team is happy to announce the availability of AbiWord v2.4.5. This release a bugfix release only, but this time the amount of bugfixes is rather huge. Especially the import and export filters have received a lot of attention due to the Google Summer of Code program, which is funding these developments.
The changes from v2.4.4 to v2.4.5 include, amongst others:The full Changelog can be found here.
- Almost completely rewrote the DocBook export filter, gaining substantial more functionality in the process
- Fixed a security bug pointed out to us by Joxean Koret (thanks!)
- Fixed a massive amount of bugs in the OpenDocument import and export filters
- Fixed the unstability on x86_64 architectures
Needless to say, all users are advised to upgrade
Packages for Windows and Linux are available for download from our site. A Mac OSX installer should be available for download soon.
Note to Mac OSX users: please aware that the font rendering is still a work-in-progress. Depending on the fonts used the quality of the rendering may be sub-optimal. We hope to address this issue as soon as possible, but since AbiWord is a 100% volunteer effort, we don't give any timeframe. Help is always appreciated though.
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